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Friday, March 11, 2016

U.S. MEGA-EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI, PACIFIC NORTHWEST RING OF FIRE

The Pacific Northwest is 69 years past due for a
continent-rending earthquake which will generate a very high tsunami wave as other major quakes there have done in the past.

Scientists estimate the odds of a "Big One"
happening in the next 50 years are about one in three, the odds of a
"Very Big One" roughly one in ten, but say we are
disastrously unprepared for such a seismic event.

ABOVE, THE RED LINE REPRESENTS THE SEISMICALLY AND VOLCANICALLY ACTIVE "RING OF FIRE" AREAS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, WITH THE RED ARROWS INDICATING THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THE PACIFIC TECTONIC PLATE IS SLIDING.

"On the periphery of the Pacific Ocean, the edge of the Pacific Continental Plate
is expanding in the seabed, and is hitting the North American Plate,
the Nazca Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and other plates, causing the
margins of the plates to collide, buckle, and compress, causing
earthquakes and volcanoes."

ABOVE, A LOOK AT SEISMIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE PERIPHERY OF THE RING OF FIRE.(Yellow circles represent earthquakes deeper than 35 kilometers.)

41 BIG QUAKES (Magnitude 8 or more) IN THE PAST 10,000 YEARS, ONE EVERY 247 YEARS...AND THE LAST MEGA-QUAKE WAS IN 1700, THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN YEARS AGO...316 YEARS , MAKING THE NEXT ONE 69 YEARS PAST DUE.

THAT 1700 QUAKE WAS ESTIMATED TO BE A MAGNITUDE 9.A magnitude 7.5 event occurred around 900 A.D. along the
Seattle Fault. The more recent Klamath Falls 'twin' quakes (Both registered magnitude 6.0, 1993) and Nisqually
quake (Magnitude 6.8, 2001) served as reminders that, like California, both Oregon and Washington are very seismically active and large quakes do happen.

SEISMOLOGISTS AND OTHER SCIENTISTS SAY THAT THE CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE IS QUITE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ANOTHER 9.0 MAGNITUDE QUAKE, AND SAY IT CAN HAPPEN, LITERALLY, AT ANY MOMENT NOW.

ABOVE, SUBDUCTION EXPLAINED.THE CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE OF AMERICA'S WEST COAST IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST ON EARTH.

According to CNN, "the largest earthquake
in the continental United States" took place along the Cascadia
Subduction Zone on January 26th, 1700.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is where
the Juan de Fuca plate meets the North American plate. It stretches
approximately 700 miles from northern Vancouver Island, Canada, all the way down
to northern California.

If the entire zone gives way at once, an
event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude of the earthquake will
be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2.

In the Pacific Northwest, everything west
of Interstate 5 covers some one hundred and forty thousand square miles,
including Seattle, Olympia and Tacoma in Washington state, Portland, Eugene and Salem in
Oregon, and about seven million
people.

OSSPAC estimates that in the I-5 corridor it will take
between one and three months after the earthquake to restore
electricity, a month to a year to restore drinking water and sewer
service, six months to a year to restore major highways, and eighteen
months to restore health-care facilities.

On the coast, those numbers go
up. Whoever chooses to or has no choice but to stay there will spend three
to six months without electricity, one to three years without drinking
water and sewage systems, and three or more years without hospitals.

Those estimates do not apply to the tsunami-inundation zone, which will
remain all but uninhabitable for years.

ABOVE, THE BLUE-SHADED AREA IS THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS CHAIN, PACIFIC NORTHWEST, A LINE OF ANCIENT VOLCANOES, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BECOME HIGHLY ACTIVE IN THE PAST FEW DECADES.

13 MAJOR VOLCANIC CENTERSThis region is one of the youngest and most tectonically active in North America.

The Cascades are made up of a band of thousands of small, short-lived
volcanoes that have built a platform of lava and volcanic debris. Rising
above this volcanic platform are a few strikingly large volcanoes that
dominate the landscape.

The Cascades volcanoes define the Pacific
Northwest section of the Ring of Fire.

Within this region, 13 major volcanic centers lie in sequence, like a string of explosive pearls.

WHAT TO EXPECT[PLEASE, SHARE THIS WITH ANYONE, EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO LIVES IN THIS REGION. SHARE THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES, NOT THE TEA ROOM'S TAKE ON IT. LET THE SCIENCE SPEAK FOR ITSELF SO PEOPLE WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE WARNINGS.]

"The first sign that
the Cascadia earthquake has begun will be a compressional wave,
radiating outward from the fault line.

Compressional waves are
fast-moving, high-frequency waves, audible to dogs and certain other
animals but experienced by humans only as a sudden jolt. They are not
very harmful, but they are potentially very useful, since they travel
fast enough to be detected by sensors thirty to ninety seconds ahead of
other seismic waves.

That is enough time for earthquake early-warning
systems, such as those in use throughout Japan, to automatically perform
a variety of lifesaving functions: shutting down railways and power
plants, opening elevators and firehouse doors, alerting hospitals to
halt surgeries, and triggering alarms so that the general public can
take cover.

The Pacific Northwest has no early-warning system.

When the
Cascadia earthquake begins, there will be, instead, a cacophony of
barking dogs and a long, suspended, what-was-that moment before the
surface waves arrive.

Surface waves are slower, lower-frequency waves
that move the ground both up and down and side to side: the shaking,
starting in earnest.

Soon after
that shaking begins, the electrical grid will fail, likely everywhere
west of the Cascades and possibly well beyond.

If it happens at night,
the ensuing catastrophe will unfold in darkness.

In theory, those who
are at home when it hits should be safest; it is easy and relatively
inexpensive to seismically safeguard a private dwelling.

But, lulled
into nonchalance by their seemingly benign environment, most people in
the Pacific Northwest have not done so.

That nonchalance will shatter
instantly.

So will everything made of glass.

Anything indoors and
unsecured will lurch across the floor or come crashing down:
bookshelves, lamps, computers, canisters of flour in the pantry.

Refrigerators will walk out of kitchens, unplugging themselves and
toppling over.

Water heaters will fall and smash interior gas lines.

Houses that are not bolted to their foundations will slide off—or,
rather, they will stay put, obeying inertia, while the foundations,
together with the rest of the Northwest, jolt westward. Unmoored on the
undulating ground, the homes will begin to collapse.

Across
the region, other, larger structures will also start to fail.

BUILDINGS/HOMES BUILT BEFORE 1974 AND UP TO 1994 ARE MOST AT RISK, 75% OF ALL STRUCTURES IN OREGON.

Until
1974, the state of Oregon had no seismic code, and few places in the
Pacific Northwest had one appropriate to a magnitude-9.0 earthquake
until 1994.

The vast majority of buildings in the region were
constructed before then.

Ian Madin, who directs the Oregon Department of
Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), estimates that seventy-five per cent of all structures in the state are not designed to withstand a major Cascadia quake.

FEMA
calculates that, across the region, something on the order of a million
buildings—more than three thousand of them schools—will collapse or be
compromised in the earthquake.

So will half of all highway bridges,
fifteen of the seventeen bridges spanning Portland’s two rivers, and
two-thirds of railways and airports; also, one-third of all fire
stations, half of all police stations, and two-thirds of all hospitals.

The shaking from the Cascadia quake
will set off landslides throughout the region—up to thirty thousand of
them in Seattle alone, the city’s emergency-management office estimates. It will also induce a process called liquefaction, whereby seemingly
solid ground starts behaving like a liquid, to the detriment of anything
on top of it.

Fifteen per cent of Seattle is built on liquefiable land,
including seventeen day-care centers and the homes of some thirty-four
thousand five hundred people.

So is Oregon’s critical
energy-infrastructure hub, a six-mile stretch of Portland through which
flows ninety per cent of the state’s liquid fuel and which houses
everything from electrical substations to natural-gas terminals.

Any one of these second-order disasters could swamp the original
earthquake in terms of cost, damage, or casualties—and one of them
definitely will.

Four to six minutes after the dogs start barking, the
shaking will subside. For another few minutes, the region, upended, will
continue to fall apart on its own.

Then the wave will arrive, and the
real destruction will begin.

Among
natural disasters, tsunamis may be the closest to being completely
unsurvivable.

The only likely way to outlive one is not to be there when
it happens: to steer clear of the vulnerable area in the first place,
or get yourself to high ground as fast as possible.

For the seventy-one
thousand people who live in Cascadia’s inundation zone, that will mean
evacuating in the narrow window after one disaster ends and before
another begins.

They will be notified to do so ONLY by the earthquake
itself—“a vibrate-alert system,” Kevin Cupples, the city planner for the
town of Seaside, Oregon, jokes—and they are urged to leave on foot,
since the earthquake will render roads impassable.

Depending on
location, they will have between ten and thirty minutes to get out.

That
time line does not allow for finding a flashlight, tending to an
earthquake injury, hesitating amid the ruins of a home, searching for
loved ones, or being a Good Samaritan.

“When that tsunami is coming, you
run,” Jay Wilson, the chair of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy
Advisory Commission (OSSPAC), says. “You protect yourself, you don’t turn around, you don’t go back to save anybody. You run for your life.”

"WE CAN'T SAVE THEM."

Lax safety policies guarantee that many
people inside the inundation zone will not get out.

Twenty-two per cent
of Oregon’s coastal population is sixty-five or older. Twenty-nine per
cent of the state’s population is disabled, and that figure rises in
many coastal counties.

“We can’t save them,” Kevin Cupples says. “I’m
not going to sugarcoat it and say, ‘Oh, yeah, we’ll go around and check
on the elderly.’ No. We won’t.”

Nor will anyone save the tourists. Washington State Park properties within the inundation zone see an
average of seventeen thousand and twenty-nine guests a day.

Ian Madin, who directs the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) estimates that up to a hundred and fifty thousand people visit Oregon’s
beaches on summer weekends. “Most of them won’t have a clue as to how to
evacuate,” he says. “And the beaches are the hardest place to evacuate
from.”

Those who cannot get out of
the inundation zone under their own power will quickly be overtaken by a
greater one.

A grown man is knocked over by ankle-deep water moving at
6.7 miles an hour.

The tsunami will be moving more than twice that fast
when it arrives.

20- TO 100-FEET TSUNAMI WAVE

Its height will vary with the contours of the coast,
from twenty feet to more than a hundred feet.

It will not look like a
Hokusai-style wave, rising up from the surface of the sea and breaking
from above. It will look like the whole ocean, elevated, overtaking
land. Nor will it be made only of water—not once it reaches the shore.It will be a five-story deluge of pickup trucks and doorframes and
cinder blocks and fishing boats and utility poles and everything else
that once constituted the coastal towns of the Pacific Northwest.

To
see the full scale of the devastation when that tsunami recedes, you
would need to be in the international space station. The inundation zone
will be scoured of structures from California to Canada.

The earthquake
will have wrought its worst havoc west of the Cascades but caused
damage as far away as Sacramento, California—as distant from the
worst-hit areas as Fort Wayne, Indiana, is from New York.

FEMA expects
to coördinate search-and-rescue operations across a hundred thousand
square miles and in the waters off four hundred and fifty-three miles of
coastline.

As for casualties: the figures I cited earlier—twenty-seven
thousand injured, almost thirteen thousand dead—are based on the
agency’s official planning scenario, which has the earthquake striking
at 9:41 A.M. on February 6th.

If, instead, it strikes in
the summer, when the beaches are full, those numbers could be off by a
horrifying margin.

COMPLETELY UNPREPARED

The Cascadia subduction zone remained hidden from us for so long because
we could not see deep enough into the past. It poses a danger to us
today because we have not thought deeply enough about the future. That
is no longer a problem of information; we now understand very well what
the Cascadia fault line WILL someday do.IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.How should a society respond to a looming crisis of uncertain timing but
of catastrophic proportions? How can it begin to right itself when its
entire infrastructure and culture developed in a way that leaves it
profoundly vulnerable to natural disaster?

At an elementary school in the
community of Gearhart, the children will be trapped. “They can’t make it
out from that school,”Doug Dougherty, the superintendent of schools for Seaside, which lies almost entirely within the tsunami-inundation zone, said. “They have no place to go.”

On
one side lies the ocean; on the other, a wide, roadless bog. When the
tsunami comes, the only place to go in Gearhart is a small ridge just
behind the school. At its tallest, it is forty-five feet high—lower than
the expected wave in a full-margin earthquake. For now, the route to
the ridge is marked by signs that say “Temporary Tsunami Assembly Area.”
I asked Dougherty about the state’s long-range plan. “There is no
long-range plan,” he said.

Dougherty’s
office is deep inside the inundation zone, a few blocks from the beach. All day long, just out of sight, the ocean rises up and collapses,
spilling foamy overlapping ovals onto the shore.

Eighty miles farther
out, ten thousand feet below the surface of the sea, the hand of a
geological clock is somewhere in its slow sweep.

All across the region,
seismologists are looking at their watches, wondering how long we have,
and what we will do, before geological time catches up to our own. "

... JANUARY 12, 2016"SLOW" EARTHQUAKE ALONG CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONEfrom SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN"We're used to thinking of earthquakes as events that happen over seconds
to a few minutes and produce a lot of shaking, but some earthquakes
actually mosey along over hours or days, the trembling so gentle only
seismometers can recognize it.

One of these earthquakes started in the
Cascadia Subduction Zone on December 21st and has been making its slow
way south from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada ever since. "

I like to call slow earthquakes the banana slugs of earthquakes. This
is because while slow earthquakes can release the same amount of energy
as a magnitude 6.5-6.8 normal earthquake, they release this energy more
slowly.

For example, many of you who have been living in the Pacific
Northwest for a long time probably remember the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake
in 2001.

The shaking during this earthquake lasted about 15 seconds. A
slow earthquake of the same magnitude lasts for weeks; the magnitude
6.8 slow earthquake in 2010 lasted from August 8 to September 8.

The current slow earthquake began on December 21 beneath Vancouver
Island, Canada. Activity continued beneath Vancouver Island for 8 days
and now the slow earthquake is migrating southward beneath the Straight
of Juan de Fuca.

Slow earthquakes happen almost every year and are thought to be part of
the normal cycle of energy release in the subduction zone. "

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A comprehensive analysis of the
Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast confirms that
the region has had numerous earthquakes over the past 10,000 years, and
suggests that the southern Oregon coast may be most vulnerable based on
recurrence frequency.

Written by researchers at Oregon State University, and published online by the U.S. Geological Survey, the study concludes that there is a 40 percent chance of a major earthquake in the Coos Bay, Ore., region
during the next 50 years. And that earthquake could approach the
intensity of the Tohoku quake that devastated Japan in March of 2011.

“The southern margin of Cascadia has a much higher recurrence level
for major earthquakes than the northern end and, frankly, it is overdue
for a rupture,” said Chris Goldfinger, a professor in OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
and lead author of the study.

“That doesn’t mean that an earthquake
couldn’t strike first along the northern half, from Newport, Ore., to
Vancouver Island.“But major earthquakes tend to strike more frequently along the
southern end – every 240 years or so – and it has been longer than that
since it last happened,” Goldfinger added.

“The probability for an earthquake on the southern part of the fault is more than double that of the northern end.”PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY.THE RESIDENTS OF THE CASCADIA AREA HAVE NOT BEEN PROPERLY PREPARED FOR THIS.WITH THE ABOVE KNOWLEDGE, ALL CAN BE MORE PREPARED, SO DO PASS THIS ON TO ANY YOU KNOW WHO COULD USE SUCH KNOWLEDGE.

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FURTHER READING, IMPORTANT DATA

~ This scenario characterizes the effects of a major subduction
earthquake on communities along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching
from the Brooks Peninsula on Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino in
northern California.Download the scenario here.

5 comments:

Hey Waninahi, one of the tribes have already moved 70 miles inland. The Gov. "allowed" them to move the reservation; how generous. I did not earmark the article so I'll poke around and see if I can find it again. It's 3AM and I just have to tell someone what I uncovered. You are very knowledgeable and might already have figured this one out but if you havn't I'm betting you'll appreciate my eureka. The part of the Exodus story when the angel of death passes over Eygpt, killing all the first born, except those in the homes marked with "the blood of a spotless lamb" always made the whole account more like a myth. I've heard 10 if not 12 different theories and none of them held water. A recent one involved the privledged first born sons being granted beds, raising them off the floor and out of harms way from poison gas. I had to leave a comment on that one asking if the oxen also slept on beds. The author of that theory forgot or did not know that it was all first born males, ox, ass,and human.I learned today the elders instructed Moses to apply the blood with Hyssop. It is claimed that Hyssop can erase or reprogram miswritten DNA. DNA in H20 will move from an enclosed beaker into a beaker of sterile H20 set in near vicinity when frequency is introduced. Everything has its own frequency. And first born males carry unique genetic markers designating them. Genetic markers are "frequencies". I remember having to learn that in bio chem. So when the angel of death passed over Egypt those within the walls marked by the frequecy of Hyssop were unaffected. This leads me to a whole new set of pestiferous questions, like "did they bring their ox in? I would have. My it's almost 6AM I've been trying to find that article I mentioned. And I read the most hopefull piece I've yet to come across involving radiolarians over radioactivity. Those who make it through the Purification will be able to heal our Mother. Love Margaret

So good to see your comment, Margaret, and it's very interesting. Having dived fairly deeply into the "mystical" many years ago with some friends who were dedicated Kabbalists, I am aware of a myriad of theories and beliefs in that realm.Certainly the PHYSICS of the Creation and of the Creator also intrigue us 'modern' humans. Many things we read from Genesis to Revelation just seem beyond belief, beyond explanation, and so ew diligently seek to wrap our poor mortal minds around them by any means we can.In Exodus 11, verse 5 "And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts." Certainly, after this, we can wonder at the methodology of the painting of the lintels with blood, using hyssop, known long ago as "an holy herb". David once asked the Lord to "purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean", remember?When we look at the "sign of the blood" saving Israel's FIRSTBORN, and then we go over to the New Testament & see God's FIRSTBORN (His only son, but still His firstborn) saving the entire world BY THE BLOOD of His sacrifice, maybe we begin to see the link back to that terrible night in Egypt?

Doubtless, our Maker has 'formulas', specific methods for this and that, but, for me, such formulas would be unnecessary to such a Being as THE God...His mere THOUGHTS and WORDS created, create, arrange molecules, give LIFE, healing, etc. Perhaps the formulas are merely for OUR benefit so we don't go loco trying to make the Acts of this unknowably extraordinary GOD fit into OUR wee minds? We can go, "AHA! I see how he did it now!"No, no we don't, but it's nice to soothe oneself with such when we stand in His immense shadow, trying not to fear, trying to make sense of the One Being Who can NEVER be comprehended in full THIS side of Eternity.I'm almost at max word content for comments, so, will continue this in another reply. I So appreciate your bringing this up...

Here's a thing that has perplexed me for 58 years, since first I read it: "Exodus 11, 10 "And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land."HUH??!! GOD hardened his heart? WHY??? Why do that so old Pharaoh suffered? WHY, if Pharaoh MIGHT have "relented & repented" would God forbid him to do so??? Point being, GOD WAS CAPABLE OF creating this hardness of that HUMAN heart. HOW? We don't know! WHY? We don't know. Seems CRUEL, doesn't it? A mystery, yes? All because we humans simply cannot conceive of anything, ANYTHING as astounding as a God-Creator. About that combination of blood and hyssop... I've read the theory that the last plague, the killing of the firstborn, MAY have been accomplished in ways from a virus to radiation....LOL...and that 'poisonous gas' one as well, but, it WAS accomplished and Israel, even their animals, WAS spared. The hyssop part was NOT mentioned when GOD told Moses & Aaron what to do. Exodus 12, 7 "And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof."

ODD, the part of not eating it raw or cooked in WATER.

THEN we see MOSES telling the ELDERS a different way to apply the blood...with hyssop!Exodus 12, 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning."Old Moses already got into trouble when he SMOTE the rock for water instead of SPEAKING to the rock like GOD told him to do, remember?UH-OH!Another "oddity"...the PASSOVER feast was NEVER meant to be kept by the uncircumcised foreigners!Exodus 12, 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. and verses 48 & 49 make that explicit. 48, "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."

Later, we see how the 'Gentiles' managed to be "grafted in" to the Tree of Israel, by the blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God...but not for thousands of years was any Gentile, any non-Jew to participate in a Passover feast UNLESS they "became as the House of Israel", so to speak, by the ritual of circumcision, etc. Conversion TO Judaism became a moot point after Calvary.

As to the Tribes being allowed to move, so were the Marshall Island folks & a few others granted access to the mainland U.S. without visa, etc, since THEIR world is also going under. I'll look for specific "American Indian" Tribes who got the nod to not have to drown, but will likely just get more than a bit ticked off looking. LOL...call me prejudiced. I AM... Honesty is the only policy, right?Hoping you & all you love are well.

Found more than PONE such moves, Margaret... Louisiana Tribes, http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/10/as-the-land-disappears-an-indian-tribe-plans-to-abandon-its-ancestral-louisiana-home.html , also see: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/22/3613714/disappearing-wetlands-native-american-tribes/ , and The Quinault Indian Nation, http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/455745765/facing-rising-waters-a-native-tribe-takes-its-plea-to-paris-climate-talks , Alaskan Tribes as well, http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/alaskan-village-faces-melting-ice-rising-seas-could-be-americas-first-climate-refugees.html, and Canadia First Nations, http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_arctic_melts_inuit_face_tensions_with_outside_world/2577/... long list, but those are some... Sad thing is, NOBODY LISTENS to the very people who were HERE before the cursed boats arrived...they've ALL seen events unfold that the "settlers" can't imagine, going back THOUSANDS OF YEARS...climate, earth changes, everything...If the "scientists" would just TRY to get out from under their THEORIES and pay attention to FACTS, just MAYBE we'd see some help for old "mother earth", but nope...so, let the 'intelligentsia' eat their theories & choke on 'em...